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USS Kidd
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| Career |  |
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| Yard: | Litton Ingalls,
Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Awarded: | March 23, 1978 |
| Laid down: | June 26, 1978 |
| Launched: | August 11, 1979 |
| Commissioned: | March 27, 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | March 12, 1998 |
| Fate: | Sold to Taiwan |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 9,783 tons full |
| Length: | 171.6 m (563 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total |
| Speed: | 33 knots (60.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | ? officers
? enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × Mark 26 Standard missile launchers
2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × AGM-84 Harpoon
2 × Mark 15 20mm Phalanx CIWS
2 × Mark 45 5 inch 54 cal gun
2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes
1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher
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| Sensors: | SPS-48E air search radar
SPG-60 gun fire control radar
SPS-55 surface search radar
SPQ-9A gun fire control radar
SQS-53 sonar
SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II |
| Aircraft: | 1 × SH-3 Sea King or
2 × SH-2 Seasprite |
Derived from the Spruance class, USS Kidd (DDG-993) was the lead ship in a class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. Kidd class vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather. The vessel was named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was on board the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first flag officer to die in World War II.
Originally named Kouroush, Kidd was originally ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered when the 1979 Iranian Revolution occurred. Subsequent to this, the U.S. Navy elected to commission them for service in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea, as they were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and were also well suited to filtering sand and the results from NBC warfare.
Kidd was eventually decommissioned from the U.S. Navy and is in the process of being transferred to the Republic of China. In that service, the vessel will be named Chi Teh (DDG-1801).
For other U.S. Navy vessels named Kidd, see USS Kidd.
External links
Navysite.de page (http://navysite.de/dd/ddg996.htm)
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